King Arthur 2004 movie review
The King Arthur 2004 movie is … uh … bad. I watched the whole thing and was entertained, but don’t think a single thing about it is historically accurate. King Arthur has been fodder for a hundred movies and will undoubtedly continue to be so. I truly wish that someone would come up with one where the history isn’t appalling. Ridley Scott is famous for acting as if there are no actual historical facts (see my review of Robin Hood), but the absurdity of the history Jerry Bruckheimer puts in this movie made me glad that my workout was only 30 minutes so I didn’t have to watch the whole thing at once. The Good: Is there anything good about this movie? Actually, the visuals are spectacular, and they obviously put a lot of money into making it. The acting is good, Read more…
The Best and Worst of King Arthur Movies
While we’re on the subject of King Arthur, which of course, we always are, except when we’re talking about Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, I thought we could talk King Arthur movies. Since I’ve ranted about the King Arthurs I don’t like to read about or watch (https://sarahwoodbury.com/the-fictional-king-arthur-rant/), how many King Arthur movie depictions have there actually been? And how many have been done well? Here’s the list from Wikipedia of straightforward King Arthur movies: Parsifal (1904) Launcelot and Elaine (1909) Il Re Artù e i cavalieri della tavola rotonda (1910) Parsifal (1912) The Quest of the Holy Grail (1915) The Adventures of Sir Galahad (serial) (1950) Knights of the Round Table (1953) Parsifal (1953) The Black Knight (1954) Prince Valiant (1954) The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (serial) (1956) Lancelot and Guinevere (1963) Siege of the Saxons (1963) The Sword in the Stone (1963) Camelot (1967) Arthur of the Britons (1972) Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) Lancelot Read more…
Kingdom of Heaven (movie review)
Since any movie with swords garners my immediate attention, Kingdom of Heaven was on the top of my list to see when it came out a few years ago. Starring Orlando Bloom, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, and Liam Neeson, and directed by Ridley Scott, what could go wrong? Confession: I love this movie. That doesn’t mean it deserves five stars, because it doesn’t. Maybe 4 on a good day, but I still love it. I love the character of Balian (played by Bloom), I’ll watch Jeremy Irons in anything, even slumming in Eragon, and all the medieval crusade material makes my mouth water. That said, the history is terrible, and for the purposes of this blog, that’s what I’m going to talk about. First, the good: The Kingdom of Jerusalem did have a King Baldwin who gained the throne as Read more…
Darkiss Reads reviews The Pendragon’s Quest!
The folks over at Darkiss Reads have posted a wonderful review for The Pendragon’s Quest: “Sarah Woodbury outdoes herself with “The Pendragon’s Quest”, which I thought was impossible because the first book was so good. I was wrong, this book surpasses the first as the author brings us deeper into Cade’s world and those of his companions. Again I was caught up in the brotherhood of warriors whose mettle was tested time and time again in battle. The story explores and adds more depth to the Characters of Cade’s most trusted Knights; Dafydd, Hywel and Goronwy whose loyalty to King and country could cost them their lives. We see the true meaning of courage and the will to never surrender flow from the pages of this novel. We see the love grow and strengthen between Cade and Rhiann along with Read more…
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